{"id":681475,"date":"2010-03-03T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13892"},"modified":"2010-03-03T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T21:38:00","slug":"microsoft%e2%80%99s-challenge-with-wp7-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/681475","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft\u2019s challenge with WP7: developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D13892\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?resize=50%2C61\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: none; padding-top: 0px\" id=\"scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:51ff903e-64e8-44e2-957e-29b0cad47d80\" class=\"wlWriterEditableSmartContent\">\n<div><object width=\"425\" height=\"355\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tcdk0DW0EkQ&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As Steve Ballmer clearly indicates, developers are what\u2019s important. Developers are also the main reason Windows as a desktop OS is so popular.<\/p>\n<p>Wired.com have asked lots of developers what they think of WP7, and it\u2019s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>The major complaint of existing WM seems to be the variety of handsets (making it difficult for developers to cover all devices). What\u2019s interesting, is that to me that\u2019s not a huge issue. Yes, you have to make your software resolution aware, but that\u2019s no different to a desktop OS.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing we can really do with regards to WP7 is wait for MIX10, and not have developers bickering about a lack of anything until it\u2019s confirmed!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Steve Ballmer clearly indicates, developers are what\u2019s important. Developers are also the main reason Windows as a desktop OS is so popular. Wired.com have asked lots of developers what they think of WP7, and it\u2019s well worth a read. The major complaint of existing WM seems to be the variety of handsets (making it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":892,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821,12071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-681475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Rhx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/892"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}